STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – The former OCH Regional Medical Center has a new owner and a new name: Baptist Memorial Hospital-Oktibbeha County.

Baptist Memorial Health Care purchased the hospital from Oktibbeha County recently.

Starkville, Oktibbeha County, and Baptist leaders came together on Monday, October 6, to celebrate this new chapter.

“As the largest healthcare provider in the state of Mississippi, our goal is to provide care locally so that people can get the care they need right close to home. And so, to be able to now partner with another community in the state of Mississippi, it’s really exciting for us,” said Jason Little, the CEO and president for Baptist Memorial Health Care System.

In 2017, residents voted to keep OCH county-owned, but times and opinions changed.

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